"Many thanks for Sunday. You were absolutely great and everybody thought so.
Very good wishes for the band - I'm sure you'll be a huge success as you're very talented and very nice to work with.
Please let me know if there's anything I can do to recommend you and let's hope we repeat it all next year!"

S.H. - Organiser, Broadway Food Festival (Sep 14)

"I thought you would like to know that everyone we have talked to, or have come up to us is full of praise for Jazz Alchemy, saying just how much they enjoyed the music and how perfectly it fitted the Green. I hope you enjoyed the day, it was our best so far (number 4). I have been asked for your contact details and have passed your card on. If you and your boys also enjoyed the day please let me know if you would like to know next year’s date."

I.R. - Organiser, Bromyard Hop Festival (Aug 14)

"Very many thanks for the lovely music that you played at our show – the music wafted over the whole show ground and I have had lots of great comments about the music. The teas really appreciated having you over there and took a record amount of £xxx which was fantastic. I will chat with the committee but we would very much like to have you back again another year."

S.R. - Organiser, Great Comberton Flower Show (Aug 14)

The Jazz Collectivepresents

Jazz Alchemy

Welcome to the Jazz Alchemy web-site. Please use the gold buttons above to navigate around the site to learn more about the band.

Jazz Alchemy are a new local melodic modern jazz band. As a core the band is a quintet of drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, and sax, but can also include, violin and vocals.

The band play a wide range of styles and standards. Elements and influences that can be detected in their playing include cool jazz, swing, Latin, blues, and even a little trad. This is not the jazz of eternal blistering bebop sax solos but instead the band focus on offering jazz that is both beautifully melodic and accessible to jazz lovers and the non-initiated alike.

We offer everything from laid back easy listening melodic jazz suitable for dining through to foot-stomping "in your face" unapologetic party jazz, and everything in between.

Jazz Alchemy has £10,000,000.00 of public liability insurance cover to ensure peace of mind for band, clients, and venues.

Jazz Alchemy is a midlands based modern melodic jazz band. This is most definitely NOT fast and furious streams of be-bob from a solo saxophonist but rather a determined focus on making beautiful melodic jazz incorporating clever conversational improvisation between multiple improvising instrumentalists.

The band plays jazz standards from the 1930's onwards plus jazzy approaches to a few more contemporary pop classics, and a little original material of their own. Influences you'll hear in the music include cool jazz ("West Coast"), swing, blues, latin, and whilst definitely not a trad band there's even an undeniable hint of "trad" influence on some of the band's older tunes. The band was formed in October 2013 and performed its first gig at a private function in February 2013. Recent gigs have included Malvern Jazz Weekend, Kenilworth Jazz Club, Upton Jazz Festival, Shipston Music Proms, Morton Stanley Festival, Albrighton Party In The Yard, Bromyard Hop Festival, Broadway Food Festival, and many more (see our Past Gigs list for more details).

The Jazz Alchemy core, and most common configuration, comprises drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, and sax.

We can also include optional violin and vocals to provide any combination from a duo right through to a 7 piece band.

Checkout our extensive set lists on the Set Lists page, and listen to some of our sounds on the Sound Samples page.

Jazz Alchemy is a part of The Jazz Collective, a 2 band collective of jazz musicians based in the UK Midlands.

We're thriled to have our great friend, the delightful vocalist Starly Cairns performing with us both on Friday 24th October in Droitwich, and Friday 5th December in Tenbury Wells. New gigs include the aforementioned Mistletoe Festival Fringe at Tenbury Wells, 2 private birthday parties, 2 Sunday lunch performance dates at the Pickled Plum in Pershore, 2 wedding fayres, and a return to next years Street Market at Little Comberton by popular demand! Please checkout our gigs page or Facebook page for our full list of upcoming gigs with more details.

News happens so quickly we're finding it difficult to ensure that the website is always completely up to date so please always check our Facebook page for up to the minute gig news and dates. You don't have to be on Facebook yourself to view our page - its open to all like any normal website. Find us at...

So much has happened since our last update. We've now welcomed Brian Richards on board as our #1 bassist and are are thrilled to now also number a wonderful pianist (and occasional vocalist!) in the form of John McDonald. Together they are helping to really take our sound to new highs. We also need to announce new gigs at; Great Comberton Flower Show Saturday 23rd August, The Duck Pond near Southam Sunday 24th August, Bromyard Hop Festival Saturday 30th August 2014, Wick Fete Saturday 6th September 2014, Broadway Food Festival Sunday 14th September 2014, Albrighton (near Wolverhampton) at the "Party in the Yard" on behalf of Whizz Kids charity on Saturday 20th September 2014, and to be confirmed a gig on the evenng of Friday 24th October in Droitwich Spa. So much is happening so fast its getting really hard to keep the website up to date so always check our Facebook page for our latest gig list at www.facebook.com/jazzalchemy

SEVEN More gigs for the diary including Upton Jazz Festival and Shipston Music Proms!...

5:00pm Saturday 12th April 2014. We're playing at 5pm but the event starts around midday and goes on til 10:30pm. Local real ales for the adults and fun and games for the youngsters plus live music throughout the day from numerous bands, including us!

2. Little Comberton Street Market

Saturday 24th May 2014. We're really pleased to be playing from 2:30pm til 4:30pm at the annual Little Comberton Street Market, Little Comberton, Near Pershore, Worcs. Expect great market stalls and village fun for all. (Think the likes of welly wanging and egg and spoon racing and whatever else they dream up). Don't miss it!

3. Redditch "Green Fair & Lions" Family Fun Day

Sunday 29th June 2014. The name says it all really. Loads of fun for all the family and the Redditch Lions will be there raising money for their good causes. We'll be playing from noon til 2pm so yet another opportunity to see and hear us in the open air.

We're proud to announce that Jazz Alchemy will be playing at the Kings Heath Royal British Legion for around 100 members and dignitaries at 2:30pm on Sunday 13th April to support the Legion's celebration of the re-dedication of their memorial stone. Unfortunately its a private members' function and not open to the general public but we hope to be able to announce further public gigs like the one below the following week at Malvern Jazz Weekend soon.

Malvern Jazz Weekend Gig.

We're immensely pleased to announce that we'll be playing at the up-coming Malvern Jazz Weekend on 19th April 2014. Its a free admision open air gig at Belle Vue Island, Great Malvern at 12:30pm (lunchtime). Hope to see you there!